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Inspirational, very informative, rooted in research and full of practical ideas. I love reading but this masterclass redirected this passion towards educating readers rather than chasing statistics. Fabulous

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Feedback about the support from School Leadership Support Service

Devon Headteacher

PLUMs meetings are supportive, informative and fun. A great opportunity to get together with people sharing an isolated role within a primary school setting who have a love of books and a passion for reading.

Regular PLUMS meetings allow me to keep up-to-date with relevant research/information from the book world that I would not necessarily have time to look into myself. This information provides me with knowledge to pass to staff members and children alike to promote the love of reading. The meetings have proven invaluable in sharing good practice with other Librarians and to help newer members to network and begin or continue in their own CPD. It's great to visit other Primary Libraries, have some tea and biscuits and talk!

We wanted to improve our library as the books we had available were not engaging our children. Our school had come out of the library services years previously and though there were lots of books in the library, we hadn’t managed to keep the quality high enough or range wide enough. We looked at simply buying books and furniture ourselves but when we calculated staff costs for this work, we realised that we would be getting good value from renewing our subscription to the library service. We haven’t been disappointed. Library Service staff have helped us think through design, have tailored our collection to our children’s interests, have provided staff and pupil training and have put us in contact with a range of experts. We are very pleased with the service that they have provided.

Always helpful and cooperative in relation to particularly challenging issues. Very flexible and always up-beat, and therefore a pleasure to spend time with.

Educational Psychology Testimonial

SENCo

Just wanted to say, that the newsletter is as helpful as ever, especially the links to changed documents and polices, etc. I found the SCOMIS explanation about Fortnite very helpful and will be passing this on to my parents today. Thanks to all, great job.

Comment made about our July 2018 Safeguarding Newsletter

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